Improvement in machines fqr removing grease from leather



"sans `To all persons to 'whom ttescprcsents may come j have invented a' new anduseful Machine forRemov- `ing Greasefrom` Leather; and Ido hereby ldeclare leather, after having undergone the` process of being `cfa dicing-tool, a scraper-lis employed, it being aiixed to the tool, ma l require.4

` scraper lis, the object of myinventon, which accom# plishe's the sameautomatieally.

-the terminus? of the advance..` movement of the main the main scraper shall he carried against it so as to `the leather.

` a ,which extend `npVt-hrough girts or cross-timbers foal springs, c, resting on the girts, .and bearing, at,

` `pendnlous arm, D, which, at its extends to and embraces the wrist h of aicranked "rocating and other movements will be imparted to s Assis-unitaire; rc HANDLEY stra perdrez-treffer SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS,Assessor, Br Messe RRATT AND BENJAMINy MCKEEN.

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:MER czlvEivrE'lrnir` 1N wma-:EINES E oEgREMovING GREASE ERoM LEATHER.

The Schedule referrer-Ito these Lette i Be it known that I, J AMES,` STARnA'rr, of Salem,` in the countyof Essexland State of Massachusetts,

the same to be fully described in the following specification aud representcdin the accompanying drawing, which denotes a verticalscction of the machine.

The common machineforfremoving .grease from i stuffed, .is veryllike `the commensud -well known machines for dcing leather, except that, in the place to a pendulousarni to` play or swing over a curved bedwith a reciprocating movement, the bed being., indirectlysupported by springs, and provided with adjustingfscrews, by which its elevation, withrespect y 'be regulated as circumstances may It has been foundvery diidcult, while the `scraper the grease which in the course of the operations ot greaseis liable to drop fronrthe scraper and fallback '.lo effect this removal of the grease from the For this purpose I have applied to-theinachin'e an elastic abstractor or auxiliaryscraper, l(hat is, one,.or a plate mounted on aspring, and arranged about at scraper, the auxiliary scraper being situated so' that cause any grease that mayhave been scraped from the "leather and be on themain scraper to be ab `stracted therefrom bythe auxiliary scraper, such grease thereby being prevented from -falling back upon Inthe drawing----l l l `A denotes the lframeof the machine.v y B is thc curved bed, ksupported by adj listing-screws b b of the frame, and screw into the bed.

Each screw goes throughone of a series of helithcirupper ends, against nut-s d, screwed on the shanks of the screws.`

'lhc main scraper is shown, at G, as arranged over thcbcd, and extended from a stock, G', pivoted to a upper part, is pivthe scraper, so as to canse it to scrape grease from a rs Patent and of the same In advance' of the bed is the auxiliaryscraper or metal mounted-or an elastic standard or spring, H,

main scraper, in manner as represented.

' The main scraper, during its advance, and after having passed off the leather, will be carried against the auxiliary scraper, and the two will be so moved together as to canse any grease that may been the front, or next adjacent side of the main scraper, to be removed therefrom.. i I am aware of the machine described in Letters Patent No. 101,081, dated March 22, 1370, and .granted to James T.V Barnstead, in which there is claimed the combination of a knife and a brush in a peculiar manner, and forthe purpose o f removing `of such machine. In the said patent the said Barnstead also claims another brush, arranged and operated in thc manner therein shown and described, for the purpose of cleanving the knife.

Under such aix-arrangement and application of the brush its supporting `spring is fastened to the pendulons arm, and swings or moves with such arm and the scraper, when moved over the bed or table, and the leather placed thereon, lthereby causing more or less of the grease removed from the scraper to drop back upon the leather f Irhave no such arrangement and application of a brush for freeing the scraper ot'fgrease removed from the leather.v4

.The device or mechanism I use for -rcmoving the manner. In the fn'st'placc, it is not supported, directly or indirectly, by a spring depending from the pendulons while the arm may be in operation. Y My auxiliary scraper G isdisposed entirely beyond the table, sothat the grease abstracted vby such scraper from the main scraper G shall not fall back upon the table, or the leather. or hide when thereon, but, in dropping off the scraper G, will fall clear ci the table or bed, or the leather when thereon.

I therefore claim!- 'from leather, the auxiliary scraper' G, as arranged, and supported in advance of the bedB, and independently of the arm D, in manner substantially as hereinbet'ore described, and as represented in fthe accompanying drawing.

- JAMES STARRAIT.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY,

skin, orpiece of leather when laid onthe bed.

J. R. Snow.

aorte grease-abstracter, G, which consists'ofva plate of the whole being'arranged, relatively to the bed and surplus grease from leather when arranged inl thel'bed grease from the scraper is not only differently arranged, but differently applied, and operates in Ya different arm D, and is not carried in any way by such arm, or a v any other devlce, to and fro over the table and leather In the machine 'for scraping or removinggreasc a 

